ERG - Energy for a Green Society (ENIAC-JTI) - WP on Optimal Solar Cell Design. University of Catania, University of Bologna, ST Microelectronics, University of Calabria, IUNET, SHARP, May 2011 - May 2014.

Ambition Power - WP on Minimizing Power Consumption + Maximizing Energy Efficiency, (MIUR - PON 2007-2013). University of Catania, University of Roma "La Sapienza", ST Microelectronics, CNR, CCR Superlab Catania, UniPa, UniME, Meridionale Impianti S.p.A., Aviogroup, Consorzio GGG-Tech, Politecnico di Bari, Magneti Marelli, Robox, Spin Tech. Ambition Power (in italian, sorry!).

	COMSON, "COupled Multiscale Simulation and Optimization in Nanoelectronics" is a Marie Curie Research Training Network, supported by the European Commission within the 6th Framework Research Programme of the EU; Oct 1st, 2005 - March 31, 2010.
	Symteco, "Symbolic Techniques for Circuit Optimization", Marie Curie Fellowships for the Transfer of Knowledge (ToK). ST Microelectronics in Catania (Italy) and Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM) in Kaiserslautern (Germany).
	Multi-objective Optimization for the Integrated Circuit Design, P.O.N. legge 297, University of Catania: Angelo Marcello Anile, Giuseppe Nicosia and ST Microelectronics: Tonio Biondi. January 1st 2003 - June 30th 2006.

Giuseppe Nicosia, Optimization, Combinatorial Optimization, Numerical Optimization, Non Linear Optimization, Large Scale Optimization, Evolutionary Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms, Immune Algorithms, Artificial Immune Systems, Graph Coloring, String Folding, NP-complete problems, Circuit Optimization, Circuit Design, Design For Yield, Device Optimization, Electronic Design Automation, Bioinformatics, Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Folding, Protein Structure Prediction, HP model.